Re: Overlong UTF-8 (Re: Make Encode.pm support the real UTF-8)

Gisle Aas <gisle(_at_)ActiveState(_dot_)com> writes:

> $ perl xxx.pl | perl xxx.pl encoding
> Hi
> utf8 "\xF0" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> utf8 "\x80" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> utf8 "\x80" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> utf8 "\x80" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> $VAR1 = 'foo\\xF0\\x80\\x80\\x80bar
> ';
>
> Was this an intentional change?
When using ':encoding(utf8)' all data after a bad byte is simply lost.
This seems like a serious perl-5.8.6 recession to me.